Save the Date Symposium 2015 Countering WMD: A Changing Landscape? 13-14 May 2015 Lincoln Hall Auditorium, National Defense University You are cordially invited to the National Defense University (NDU) Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction’s 14th annual symposium, Countering WMD: A Changing Landscape?, on 13-14 May 2015 at NDU, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. This year’s symposium will examine whether and how current assumptions about the WMD threat and response may be changing in light […]

John P. Caves, Jr. and W. Seth Carus Occasional Paper 10, June 2014 This occasional paper explores the impact of technological change and the evolving geopolitical environment on the future weapons of mass destruction threat. Technological advances will enable new forms of chemical and biological weapons, and may increase proliferation risks for nuclear weapons. An increasingly multipolar international system could make weapons of mass destruction more attractive, while declining Western influence could undermine regimes intended to control their proliferation and […]

The public revelations of Iran’s clandestine nuclear activities in August 2002 unleashed one of the most intensive and highly publicized inspections in the history of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Transcript Well good morning, it is a real privilege and pleasure for me to join this group and celebrate 20 years of the Center. I was president at the creation and so were some others of those on the panel today and I particularly want to salute Bob Joseph and John Reichart who have done such a wonderful job with the leadership of the Center and more about Bob’s role and the founding at the beginning. I have been […]

John P. Caves, Jr. and W. Seth Carus Occasional Paper 10, June 2014 This occasional paper explores the impact of technological change and the evolving geopolitical environment on the future weapons of mass destruction threat. Technological advances will enable new forms of chemical and biological weapons, and may increase proliferation risks for nuclear weapons. An increasingly multipolar international system could make weapons of mass destruction more attractive, while declining Western influence could undermine regimes intended to control their proliferation and […]

The public revelations of Iran’s clandestine nuclear activities in August 2002 unleashed one of the most intensive and highly publicized inspections in the history of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).